Buddhist policies operated nationally in Goryeo Era is summarized in a word into seungjeong. Similarly to the bureaucratic system, seungjeong was seized and implemented by the state but opinions from the Buddhist world were partially reflected in the form of gongeui (public opinions). During the yuan intervention period, the king seized the Buddhist world and commissioned the positions of chief Buddhist monks to certain monks in order to strengthen support for him. Such method triggered criticism that seungjeong at the time was implemented unfairly. In fact, the very thing that seungjeong was done by the state reveals the Buddhist world’s subordination to the state. In addition, as certain monks who received affection from the king seized seungjeong, subordination of the Buddhist world became all the more serious and as a result diversity and autonomy of the Buddhist world were much damaged. Such negative recognition about seungjeong would be a chance to trigger criticism by Neo-confucinist scholars about the Buddhist world. In the end, as the state massively scaled down or repealed seungjeong after the creation of the Joseon Dynasty, the Buddhist world could not help being greatly affected. Meanwhile, amid ambivalent relationship of protection and control, the nation prescribed new forces with Buddhist elements as vicious Buddhist monks and removed them. The existing Buddhist world was able to get rid of new forces who infringed their established rights with a method to give legitimacy to the state’s actions and the state supported the Buddhist world in a way of maintaining only what was within their control. Cooperation with the new religious forces by the state and the Buddhist world guaranteed mutual interest. In addition, primary punishment for monks was ceased: Laymen among pseudo religious forces were executed while monks were exiled to the provinces. This shows that the state managed the Buddhist world in a capital-centered, centralist way. For certainty, although there were monks who were sent as chief Buddhist monks to the provincial temples with seonggye (organization of a monk’s disciples) but they were also continuously connected to the center of the state. On the other hand, monks in the provinces disregarded to some extent by the nation were not included in the subjects of protection and control by the state and the Buddhist world concentrated in the capital was probably easily affected by the national policies. In other words, it can be estimated that Goryeo controlled the Buddhist world in a centralist way and relatively weakened subordination to the state in the provincial Buddism compared to the central Buddhism.